State of the Art
See the Feed magazine discussion on game theory
Does multimedia fit into the art world?
the reasons for the as-yet unfulfilled promise of CD-ROMs lie not in the technology,
its marketing, or the creative poverty of its designers but in the flawed idea of the
medium
Michael Punt `CD-ROM: Radical nostalgia?' 1995
Virtual reality, interactive television and particularly CD Rom. have shown signs of
'hyperbole fatigue' as the technologically led expectations of producers have been
unfulfilled.
Michael Punt `CD-ROM: Radical nostalgia?' 1995
`We are always confronted by a phenomenon of collaboration of resistance. We have seen
this with painters, the filmakers who diverge, and it is there for all to see in the
technosciences. Technical culture is a necessity, just as artistic culture was.
Unfortunately, this technical culture has not been developed and remains, to a great
extent, elite. There is no deomcratization in this technical culture. When dealing with a
given technical object, we must once again diverge. We have to become critical.
Impressionism is a critique of photography, documentary a critique of propaganda.
Therefore we should today be inaugurating an art critique of technosciences in order to
diverge our relation with the technology.'
Paul Virilio Cybermonde, la politique du pire1996